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| Twitter temporarily restricts tweets users can see, Elon Musk announces | Twitter temporarily restricts tweets users can see, Elon Musk announces |
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| Twitter has applied a temporary limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day, owner Elon Musk has said. | Twitter has applied a temporary limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day, owner Elon Musk has said. |
| In a tweet of his own, Mr Musk said unverified accounts are now limited to reading 600 posts a day. | |
| For new unverified accounts, the number is 300. Meanwhile, accounts with "verified" status are currently limited to 6,000 posts a day. | |
| Mr Musk said the temporary limits were to address "extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation". | |
| Data scraping refers to a process that sees information pulled out of a website and imported into another programme. Mr Musk did not give further details, or explain what was meant by system manipulation in this context. | |
| Mr Musk later added that the reading limits would "soon" rise to 800 tweets per day for unverified accounts, 400 for new unverified accounts and 8,000 for verified accounts. | |
| On Friday, those trying to access Twitter were told they had to login to view the content. The move was a "temporary emergency measure", Mr Musk said at the time. | |
| He claimed that the social media platform was "getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users". | He claimed that the social media platform was "getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users". |
| According to the website Downdetector - which tracks online outages - a peak of 5,126 people reported problems accessing the platform in the UK at 16:12 BST on Saturday. | |
| In the US, roughly 7,461 people reported glitches around the same time. | In the US, roughly 7,461 people reported glitches around the same time. |
| Signalled by a blue tick, "verified" status was given for free by Twitter to high-profile accounts before Mr Musk took over as its boss. | |
| Now, most users have to pay a subscription fee from $8 (£6.30) per month to be verified, and can gain the status regardless of their profile. | |
| Some high-profile accounts have a verification badge despite not paying for it, although many temporarily lost their blue tick badges back in April. | |
| Mr Musk bought the company last year for $44bn (£35bn) after much back and forth. He was critical of Twitter's previous management and said he did not want the platform to become an echo chamber. | Mr Musk bought the company last year for $44bn (£35bn) after much back and forth. He was critical of Twitter's previous management and said he did not want the platform to become an echo chamber. |
| Soon after taking over, he cut the workforce from just under 8,000 staff to about 1,500. | Soon after taking over, he cut the workforce from just under 8,000 staff to about 1,500. |
| In an interview with the BBC, he said that cutting the workforce had not been easy. | In an interview with the BBC, he said that cutting the workforce had not been easy. |
| Engineers were included in the layoffs and their exit raised concerns about the platform's stability. | Engineers were included in the layoffs and their exit raised concerns about the platform's stability. |
| But while Mr Musk acknowledged some glitches, he told the BBC in April that outages had not lasted very long and the site was working fine. | But while Mr Musk acknowledged some glitches, he told the BBC in April that outages had not lasted very long and the site was working fine. |
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